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World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...order afflicts them during the most impressionable period of their lives. However, the scientific community has made tremendous strides in diagnosing, understanding and treating epilepsy from the latter half of the 20th century, according to him. "About 80 per cent of those with epilepsy can be cured or...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...erventions in the helicopter, it added. During the period covered by Parker's paper, no wounded soldiers lost their lives in transit who were otherwise expected to survive, while four did unexpectedly survive, the ministry said. "The care that we provide is equal to that which would be expected in any major...

Lindsay Lohan Gets Another Vodka Deal!

...Paris Hilton a service called Georgi-Mobile for a period of one-year "if they decide to go clubbing or partying." According to the New York Daily News, the service includes being free rides home after a wild night of partying and boozing. Lohan is currently at the Promises treatment center in Malibu on M...

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

...vely high temperatures of 37 degrees Celsius for a period of three months and continue to give best results. If kept at temperatures between 2-8 degrees Celsius, it can remain effective for use for over two years. NIHFW director Deoki Nandan said the institute has transferred the technology to the Nationa...

China to Curtail Organ Sale

...e new regulation, hospitals will be barred for a period of three years and officials will be fired from their posts, if found guilty. The license of the offending doctors will be revoked. The penalty fee will be raised to ten times the potential profit. The new move by the state council attempts to stand...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

... that the child lost consciousness for an extended period following the shot. Michelle does not seem to have had a seizure or loss of consciousness. Though concerned about the fever, her mother did not bring Michelle to the doctor until 10 days after it first spiked. The Justice lawyers picked at the expe...

Etanercept Reduces Psoriasis

...al with an open-label extension . After a 12-week period during which 618 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis were randomly assigned to receive either placebo or 50 milligrams of etanercept twice weekly (the current recommended dosage for psoriasis) for 12 weeks, all 591 continuing patients (average...

Scientists Establish Link Between Foie Gras and Disease

...iver, spleen, intestine, and other organs within a period of eight weeks. The researchers concluded that this and perhaps other forms of amyloidosis might be transmissible, like "mad cow" and other related diseases. They further state that no other infectious sources of food products have been found until...

Early Arctic Spring Indication of Climate Change

...ts of Europe the early advancement during the same period was 2.5 days per decade and 5.1 days globally. "We were particularly surprised to see that the trends were so strong when considering that the entire summer is very short in the High Arctic with just three to four months from snow melt to freeze u...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

...ases, more than double 1,392 cases during the same period in 2006, the statement said. Efforts have been stepped up to eradicate breeding grounds of the dengue-causing Aedes mosquito in the island-state, which has a reputation for being one of the world's cleanest cities. "The recent spells of intermi...

Women Taking Oestrogen Therapy Showed Reduced Coronary Artery Calcification

...nary artery calcification at the end of the study period compared with those taking placebo. Coronary artery calcification is a marker of plaque in the arteries and a predictor of future cardiovascular events. In the five years since the WHI study ended, new data have emerged that help put the initial fi...

Questions Over Drugs to Prevent Heart Complications During Surgery

...t taking statins or blockers in the perioperative period specifically to reduce the likelihood of perioperative cardiac events....

Doctors Warn of Deficiencies in Antenatal HIV Testing

...may have been tested during the serological window period (the stage immediately after infection when the virus cannot be detected). They point out that the information leaflet on HIV testing produced by the Department of Health does not include an explanation about the HIV window period, and retesting is...

Dengue Fever Deaths Up in Vietnam

...he year and killed 21, seven more than in the same period last year, the health ministry said Friday. Higher temperatures and rainfalls have been blamed for the nearly 15 percent rise to 19,144 new infections from the mosquito-borne disease, which have been concentrated in the poverty-stricken southern Me...

Potentially Violent Individuals can Be Identified by STAMP System

... Many more episodes were observed during the study period and I was keen to note how staff managed to defuse potentially violent episodes. Key findings of the study, co-authored by Professor Debra Jackson (University of Western Sydney) and Professor Kim Usher (James Cook University), included: Staring ...

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...prevention will not only save lives and extend the period of healthy life, but will also reduce healthcare costs and improve the productivity and vitality of the world. The UAE has already made positive strides toward embracing a prevention model of healthcare. They currently have nine preventive medicine...

Rising Sea Levels Could Disintegrate Antarctic Ice Sheet

...oulders in Antarctica's Framnes Mountains during a period spanning the end of the last ice age. Findings revealed that from 13,000 to 7000 years ago, when sea levels rose by 100 metres, the ice sheet thinned by 200 to 350 metres. According to Mackintosh, the rising waters would have lifted the buoyant ic...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...it is given around the time of perimenopause - the period before menopause when production of the sex hormon...oup was given an estrogen shot every 21 days for a period of two years. The others did not get additional hormones of any kind. On short-term memory tests, ...

Cox Cringes Seeing Her Skinny 'Friends' Body!

...elp but cringe over her thin frame. "There was a period when I was on Friends and I was really, really thin. I thought I looked great. In retrospect, I didn't," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying. "I can take care of other people but I'm not good at taking care of myself," she added. The 43-year old s...

Smoking Hampers Alcoholics' Neurocognitive Recovery During Abstinence

...ive recovery during their first six to nine months period of alcohol abstinence . About 50 to 90 percent ... they are still actively drinking or after a short period of sobriety. However, it was unknown if non-smoking alcoholics and alcoholics who continued to sm...

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